Evangelicals clinging to political power—even if from good motivations—should consider the stories of Joseph and Daniel.

As a composer of sacred music, I rely on the biblical text just as deeply as a scholar or a…

Motifs surrounding Levites and cultic servants influence readers’ understanding of their significance and relationship.

Male violence against women in Genesis belongs within the broader narrative portrait of humanity’s violence and rebellion against God.

How will the people remain faithful to the covenant without Moses? For Deuteronomy, the answer is memory.

Achilles’ heel and Jacob’s heel are both points of weakness, but while Achilles’ weakness gets him killed, Jacob’s weakness saves him.

Despite a common assumption, Israelite women were not dominated by men throughout ancient Israelite society.

The Biblical Mind is a magazine meant to investigate and re-orient readers to the thinking of the biblical authors apparent in their texts.

The Song of Deborah in the book of Judges demonstrates that Hebrew poetry is an appeal to reason just as much as it is an appeal to emotion.

Though most of the “virtues” in the Bible would have found little welcome in Aristotle’s world of Athens, some of the Bible—its Hebraic tradition especially—contains moral concepts that, in form, can be considered Aristotelian.